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Brain glutamate levels and antipsychotic response in schizophrenia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2020
Abstract
There is considerable interest in identifying biomarkers of antipsychotic response in schizophrenia. Glutamate is one key candidate. The development of brain imaging techniques for measuring brain glutamate levels has allowed this hypothesis to be tested directly in patients. This talk will present our ongoing research examining the relationship between brain glutamate levels and antipsychotic response in first-episode psychosis and in treatment-resistant schizophrenia. I will summarise our results from both our completed and ongoing studies, to consider whether glutamate imaging might be useful in the future to identify patients who would benefit from non-dopaminergic antipsychotic drugs and inform novel, glutamate-based, treatment strategies.
The author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.
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- European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S19
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- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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